Medication Adherence

There are several principles to keep in mind when choosing treatment regimens for patients coinfected with HIV and hepatitis C virus, according to Carlos Malvestutto, MD, MPH, assistant clinical professor in the division of infectious diseases at The Ohio State University and medical director of the Family AIDS Clinic and Education Services at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

The use of pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, in women is “a little bit more complicated” compared with men, according to Raphael J. Landovitz, MD, of the UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.